ITALIAN LITERATURE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

ITALIAN LITERATURE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FARNETTI Monica

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Availability to listen and to be introduced to the reading and interpretation of the text; an overview of the history of Italian and western literature.

AF code:

40002726

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral Examination

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Acquisition of philological, metrical, rethorical, linguistic, sylistic, cultural and philosophical instruments for the analysis of the text and its hystorical interpretation.

Contents

Petrarca, Petrarchism, Gaspara Stampa and Michelangelo.
Reading of Gaspara Stampa's and Michelangelo's Rime in parallel with their model, Francesco Petrarca' Canzoniere. Integration of Stampa and Michelangelo in the context of the Petrarchism, of the italian Renaissance literature, and of the history of female talent and genius. Observation of the relationship between the text and its source. Comprehension of the inner workings of tradition and the process of imitation.

Recommended Bibliography

F. Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di P. Vecchi Galli, Rizzoli 2012.
R. Antonelli, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, in Letteratura italiana. Le opere, I, Einaudi 1992, pp. 601-721.
G. Stampa, Rime, Rizzoli 2013 (15 text provided by the teacher).
Michelangelo, Rime, Rizzoli 2003 (15 text provided by the teacher).
G. Cambon, L'eros proteiforme, in La poesia di Michelangelo, Einaudi 1991, pp. 45-70.
M. Farnetti, Gaspara Stampa, in Liriche del Cinquecento, Iacobelli 2014, pp. 231-239.

Teaching Methods

Frontal Classes

Contacts/More Information

Possible light integrations and amendments of the learning material

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